Pope Gregory III

Pope Gregory III (690-28 November 741) was Pope from 731 to 741, succeeding Pope Gregory II and preceding Pope Zachary.

Biography
Gregorius was born in 690 AD, the son of a Syrian named John. He was consecrated as pope on 11 February 731 AD after the death of Pope Gregory II, and he was the last non-Western pope until 2013, when Pope Francis was consecrated as pontiff. Gregory fought against iconoclasm, and he also had to fight against the Lombards, who invaded Italy. During his tenure as Pope, the Umayyad Caliphate invaded France and pushed up to Poitiers before Charles Martel defeated them at Tours in 732, and he invoked Charles Martel's intervention against the Lombards. The Lombards seized several towns, and Gregory died in 741 as the Lombards continued their invasions.